Amelie Langourieux

Hi guys!

Becoming an official member of ICMC has been one of my best decision so far this year. I truly love this society and the crazy people in it! That's why I'm nominating myself to be your next Training & Safety Officer :)

I know a lot of you, like me, have joined ICMC with little to no knowledge about mountaineering, and would love to level up on those sport/trad/crack climbing and bouldering skills. So I've compiled a list of courses that I'd try to run next year to make that happen.

Within ICMC:

• Continue the belay partner scheme
• Have a monthly teaching session where more experienced climbers can volunteer to teach a specific skill that has been voted by you in advance. These skills could include:
  • Safely anchoring
  • Becoming confident in falling and catching in lead belay
  • Climbing techniques

External courses that we could try to get subsidised:

• JCMT Summer Alpine Mountaineering course. Skills taught:
  • An introduction to glacier travel
  • Crevasse rescue
  • Avalanche assessment
  • Use of equipment
  • Alpine mountaineering
  • Route planning
• Plas y Brenin Scottish Winter Mountaineering (No Trad Experience Required!). Skills taught:
  • Use of ice axe and crampons
  • Ice axe arrest
  • Winter navigation
  • Avalanche risk assessment and avoidance
  • Emergency snow shelters/survival
  • Elementary ropework and snow belays
  • Terrain – ridges, rocky steps, cornices, steep snow (Grade 1)
  • Mountaineering decision making
• BMC Mountain Medicine Weekend. Skills taught:
  • Packing a first aid kit
  • Management of superficial wounds
  • Splinting methods
  • Hand and Foot Injuries in climbers
  • Altitude illness and its management